Spanish Faculty

Carlos Echeverría Arriagada 

Assistant Professor of Spanish
Email: cechever@ttu.edu

Education 

• Ph.D. in Spanish (Linguistics) & Language Science (dual title), The Pennsylvania State University (2022)
   

Research interests 

• Spanish and Romance morphology and syntax
• Quantitative methodology (corpus-based and experimental approaches)
• Historical linguistics 
• Linguistic theory and history of linguistics
• Linguistic approaches to translation and language contact
   

Recent publications

• Echeverría, C. I. (2026). “Anacolutha, syntactic planes, and constructions: Recomplementation in discourse and grammar.” Lingua, 341, 104142. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2026.104142
• Echeverría, C. I. (2026). “Again on the existence of causative periphrases in Spanish: The case of ‘MANDAR/ENVIAR a + infinitive.’” Languages, 11 (Romance historical syntax: Special issue on syntactic analyzability in diachrony, ed. by J. Alba-Salas & M. Delicado Cantero), 90. https://doi.org/10.3390/languages11050090
• Torres Cacoullos, R., C. I. Echeverría & J. Bybee (2025). “Estructura argumental de verbos que se construyen con preposición.” In C. Company Company (ed.), Sintaxis histórica de la lengua española. Cuarta parte: Estructura argumental, estructura informativa y discurso. Tradiciones discursivas y géneros textuales (pp. 403–510). México: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México/Fondo de Cultura Económica.
• Torres Cacoullos, R., & C. I. Echeverría (2023). “Procesos de gramaticalización en la historia del español.” In S. N. Dworkin, G. Clavería Nadal & Á. S. Octavio de Toledo y Huerta (eds.), Lingüística histórica del español: The Routledge Handbook of Spanish Historical Linguistics (pp. 98–110). London: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003035565-11
• Echeverría, C. I. (2022). “On the inertia of linguistic ideas: revisiting the dichotomy between closed and open classes.” Language Sciences, 89, 101445. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.langsci.2021.101445
• Echeverría, C. I. (2022). “Once again on the parallelism between expression and content.” Acta Linguistica Hafniensia, 54 (1), 24–39. https://doi.org/10.1080/03740463.2021.1886578

 

Courses taught at TTU 

• CMLL 3303: Introduction to Translation and Interpretation
• CMLL 5301/SPAN 5385: Statistical Methods in Linguistics
• SPAN 3308: How the Spanish Language Works: A Course in Hispanic Linguistics
• SPAN 4306: Introduction to Spanish Translation and Interpretation
• SPAN 4337: Language, Culture & Society
• SPAN 5340: Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
• SPAN 5385: Corpus Linguistics and Translation Research